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banknient inclosing a part of it wliich formerly served for 

 a fortification. We next walked along the curve of a little 

 bay, when our attention was directed to a pandanus, or screw 

 pine, which threw out fi'om its top roots that descended to 

 the ground. We retiunied to the ship during a glorious 

 sunset, the horizon being draped with magnificently gilded 

 clouds. 



I have just remarked that the churcli and mission house 

 of the Catholic missionaries contrasted unfavourably in 

 appearance with those of the Protestant missionaries, pro- 

 ducing an impression of much less attention to order and 

 cleanliness. And, in point of fact. Captain Erskine informs 

 us, that the people here struck him as being less clothed and 

 cleanly in their persons and homes, than others of their 

 fellow-natives.^ This difference, to the disadvantage of the 

 converts to Romanism, is a matter of general remark, and is 

 also an unavoidable result. For, while the Catholic mis- 

 sionary, for the most part, glorying in his poverty and 

 privation, is content to invest his rehgion with a certain 

 physical squalor, the Protestant missionary, having no such 

 ambition, labours to associate his with much attention to 

 physical well-being. The pattemi set before tlie natives by 

 the former, is copied more or less from the habits of the 

 anchorite, and is so far incapable of instructing them in the 



1 Erskine, p. 149. He adds : ' I heard also among tlie younger 

 officers of our party, comjjlaints of pockets picked and handkerchiefs 

 stolen, showing a more lawless state of life, and a retention of their 

 old habits, which were so obnoxious to their early Eurojaean visitors.' 



